Columbia Pictures and Scott Rudin have picked up the rights for a film following the life of living brain study Henry Molaison. **No Country For Old Men **and **Revolutionary Road **producer Rudin became interested in the topic after seeing the obituary for Mr Molaison who died in December aged 82. The film will follow the patient - known in the medical field only as H.M - who had the most studied brain in history after decades of research.
Having suffered a head injury at the age of 9, Molaison was the subject of a revolutionary and highly experimental brain operation in 1953 which promised to offer a way to halt seizures he was suffering, but which instead left him unable to form new memories.
The film will be adapted from the memoir written by Dr. Suzanne Corkin - a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT - who worked on his case for 45 years, with the action seen from her perspective.
Rudin has also acquired rights to another book written about the subject, called Memory's Ghost: The Nature of Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M, by Philip Hilts.